Finnish game studio Housemarque is the newest addition to Sony’s stable of first-party developers. Sony announced on Tuesday that the makers of Returnal will join PlayStation Studios. “We are so excited to finally join the PlayStation Studios family,” Ilari Kuittinen, Housemarque’s co-founder and managing director, wrote on PlayStation Blog. “This gives our studio a clear […]
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Microsoft buys ReFirm Labs to boost IoT security with firmware analysis
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Microsoft has acquired firmware security startup ReFirm Labs to boost its security capabilities for protecting Internet of Things and intelligent edge devices. The intelligent edge — made up of cloud-connected devices capable of specialized tasks — have opened up a new attack surface, David Weston, […]
Thunderful Group Buys Bridge Constructor Series Publisher For An Estimated $13.5M
Thunderful Group, a Swedish video game holding company based in Gothenburg, has acquired German developer and publisher Headup, founded in January 2009 by Dieter Schoeller. The company is best known for publishing the Bridge Constructor series of games developed by ClockStone. The Swedish group will pay $6M in cash with up to an additional $7.3M […]
One Of Best Buy’s Display PS5s Has Overheated
We’re less than a week away from the launch of the PlayStation 5, and we’re learning so much about the new console in the days leading up to release. For starters, you can see the PS5’s menu in the latest video, along with all the neat little beeps and boops it makes when you click […]
Best Buy's Early Black Friday Deals Are Live Now: Cheap Games, 4K TVs, Headsets, And More
The wait is over–Amazon Prime Day 2020 is happening right now, but you don’t have to be a Prime subscriber or even shop at Amazon to get amazing deals today. That’s because this has effectively become a precursor to Black Friday, and competing retailers are getting in on the action with steep discounts on games […]
Rapper Logic Buys Pokemon Card For $220,000, And He Has A Surprisingly Sweet Reason
The rapper Logic, whose real name is Robert Bryson Hall II, has purchased an ultra-rare Pokemon card for a pretty penny. He said on Twitter that he was the bidder on a PSA 10 Base Set 1st Edition Charizard card with a winning bid of $183,812. With the 20% buyer’s premium factored in, the total […]
Best Buy's massive sale brings huge drops on PCs, monitors, and more
Best Buy is in the middle of a four-day sale with some tasty deals on PC gear including laptops, monitors, and more. If you aren’t a PC shopper you can also find deals on smart home gear, mobile devices, and smart TVs. Here are our top picks from the sale. First up, we really like […]
Facebook Buys Developer Ready At Dawn
Facebook has announced that it has purchased developer Ready at Dawn, who’ve been working on multiple games in its Lone Echo VR series (shooter Echo Combat is shown above), and will continue to do so for Oculus, Facebook’s VR platform. Ready at Dawn worked with Sony properties like the God of War series before handling […]
Facebook Buys Every AR Display From Key Supplier Apple Looked At Acquiring
Facebook signed a deal to buy several years of the entire output of a key AR microLED display supplier Apple looked at acquiring, The Information reports. Mark Zuckerberg’s company spends “billions” of dollars researching augmented and virtual reality technology. It has publicly stated its goal of releasing lightweight AR glasses this decade, with the eventual […]